1. Editorial

   • Peter Apers
   • Stefano Ceri
   • Richard Snodgrass

   Special issue VLDB Best papers 2001 Pages: 177 - 178

2. Energy-performance trade-offs for spatial access methods on memory-resident data

   • Ning An
   • Sudhanva Gurumurthi
   • Mary Jane Irwin

   Special issue VLDB Best papers 2001 Pages: 179 - 197

3. Data page layouts for relational databases on deep memory hierarchies

   • Anastassia Ailamaki
   • David J. DeWitt
   • Mark D. Hill

   Special issue VLDB Best papers 2001 Pages: 198 - 215

4. A formal perspective on the view selection problem

   • Rada Chirkova
   • Alon Y. Halevy
   • Dan Suciu

   Special issue VLDB Best papers 2001 Pages: 216 - 237

5. Views in a large-scale XML repository

   • Vincent Aguilera
   • Sophie Cluet
   • Dan Vodislav

   Special issue VLDB Best papers 2001 Pages: 238 - 255

6. Database indexing for large DNA and protein sequence collections

   • Ela Hunt
   • Malcolm P. Atkinson
   • Robert W. Irving

   Special issue VLDB Best papers 2001 Pages: 256 - 271